Favourite/ most memorable quotes.

DaveyGem

Bunk in season 4 at some stage.

Bunk:Aint got no love for the Bunk? Is it the collogne? <Sniffs> Hmmm pussy!

Gekko

K4t wrote: »

I think the greatest quote is from Season 2.

Frank Sobotka looking out over the docks near the end of the series: "We used to make things in this country". The second series is possibly the best season along with season four in my opinion.

"You know what the problem is, Brucie? We used to make **** in this country... build ****. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pockets."

For me this quote is perhaps the defining one of The Wire. Was just reading a post on a forum where I found the quote and it said Sobotka was like a Shakespearean character.

No bigger compliment that that really - I'd agree wholeheartedly with it.

Johnny Storm wrote: »

"Bushmills?! - That's a Protestant whisky! :eek:" - McNutty.

Had to laugh at that one

BuachaillAbroad

"Play in dirt, you get dirty" - McNulty from Seaon 4

Think that sums up the whole politics/police side of The Wire for me.

Also agree with previous writer's Frank Sobotka's "We used Build..." comment as well.

Great show...I've been out of work this week with an ACL injury & The Wire is maintaining my sanity!!

McGrath5

From season 5 when Marlo goes to meet with sergei in prison but instead Avon shows up
" Up in this bitch, i'm what you might consider an authority figure"

ronan o'meara

Cheese - Ho was pullin guns from her p*ssy and sh*t. Sh*t was unseemly.

ronnie3585

McNulty: Don't be so hard on the Greeks, Bunk. They invented civilisation.

Bunk: They invented ass fu*kin too.

lukin

I've only just finished watching season one and have seen a bit of season two but the "These are for you McNulty Scene with Rawls" in season one is a classic. He gives McNulty two fingers and says:

"These are for you, one for your eye, and one to shove up your narrow Irish ass."

Flairpinnedme

the king stay the king.

the_god_swan

Avon to Stringer "I ain't no suit-wearin' businessman like you... you know I'm just a gangsta I suppose... "

deisedude

Cheese looking to get paid "Wheres my cheese at?":cool:

lukin

Carver: "You do not get to win s**tbird, WE DO!"

brendansmith

Rawls: "you're just having a little fun aren't you anonymous? pretty soon, you're roll out a real post, maybe inside a cake? and then it'll pop out, flash a little tit, give a whiff of that muff?
that'd just be ****ing crembrule."

ProjectColossus

Season 2

Sergei "Serge" Malatov - In a phone call to a dealer asking whether a recently found body was his handiwork - "Did he have hands? Did he have face? Then it wasn't us."


Just finished series 3, ready to roll into my series 4 DVDs

krudler

Freamon and Bunks interrogation of the ship crew in season 2

"Mother****er you dont travel halfway around the world and dont learn any ****ing english"
"?"
"ENGLISH MOTHER****ER!"

spitfireIRL

Season 2

Burrell : What's this Sobatka to you?
Valchek: He's an asshole!

:pac:

Schism

Prop Joe in Season 2.

'If it was wasn't for Sergei here, y'all be some cadaverous mother****ers'

raindog.promo

Bunk : "Somewhere there's a detective looking at a table full of heads."

laoisforliam

Bodie: Yo!! you betta step the **** off, before I loose my composure up in this bitch!!

Jimmy Iovine

Prop Joe: "Omar to one side holding a spade, and maybe Marlo to the other with a shovel, and just at this moment, I manage to crawl out my own damn grave. No way do I crawl back in."

Schism

laoisforliam wrote: »

Bodie: Yo!! you betta step the **** off, before I loose my composure up in this bitch!!

Nice one. Bodie's got some great lines, or maybe it's just the delivery.

lukin

Proposition Joe (about Marlo when he was trying to explain to him about off-shore accounts):
"Its gonna be difficult civilizing this motherf****r"

laoisforliam

Schism wrote: »

Nice one. Bodie's got some great lines, or maybe it's just the delivery.

Yeah he really does I love in the fourth season when he says to mcnuty

'I feel like one of those bald ass bitches on the chess board'

or something to that affect, its all in his delivery accompagnied with a trademark spit.

fisgon

Daniels, when talking about having to wait days or weeks to get results from a wire they have set up

"I don't know about you, but I'm one patient mother****er".

Schism

D'angelo - 'Money be green fool'

K4t

laoisforliam wrote: »

Yeah he really does I love in the fourth season when he says to mcnuty

'I feel like one of those bald ass bitches on the chess board'

or something to that affect, its all in his delivery accompagnied with a trademark spit.

Classic, linked back to the chess scene in season 1. Bodie is a great character. hated the way he was killed off but couldn't fault it for reality.

Avon to Stringer: "You bleed green and I bleed red" something along those lines. Classic.

Hitman Actual

Hmmm... I'm not sure if people would know to expect spoilers in this thread, but that small bit of info in the last post would definitely annoy me if I hadn't gotten that far in the series.

fisgon

Stringer wants Slim Charles to wack Clay Davis.....Slim is less than enthused......

"Murder ain't no thing, but this here some assasination ****, String..."

fisgon

Omar and Brother Mousone are getting ready to ambush Stringer, casing out the building he is going to be in...looking for an entrance around the back

BM: Is there an alley entrance?
O: Boarded up on both sides. We're gonna have to go through the front.
BM: That's a change for you, isn't it?

cozziej

Clay: "Sheeeeeeeeeeee-it"

Borneo Fnctn

Freamon to Daniels:

"I don't want to go to no dance unless I can feel some tit."

laoisforliam

Cheese: One bitch was pullin guns outta her pussy, i mean joe! that shit was unseemly

Cheese: Incursions? Wel aint you the articulate mofuucka

Cheese: Yall niggas are sellin dope and coke in baltimore, if yall dont have that kinda money y'ought to be ashamed of yourselves

Cole: We got you kid we got your prints on the gun!!
Bodie: Which Gun?
Cole:.....This one rtight here
Bodie: (Smiles) Lawyer

teamB_macro

Landsman: For you I would suggest some pantsuits, perhaps muted in color, something to offset Detective Moreland's pinstripe lawyerly affectations and the brash tweedy impertinence of Detective Freamon. Rawls is watching on this one, let's at least pretend like we got a ****ing clue.

Freamon: Tweedy impertinence? I like that.